Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Santa Fe Trail (Warner) is one of those vast panoramas of an epoch on whose details Hollywood cameras love to dwell. It begins in 1854 with graduation ceremonies at West Point, shows Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis addressing the graduating class. Then it moves west, watches seven of the Class of 1854 patrolling the vast reaches of the frontier from their post at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Among the seven are George Custer (Ronald Reagan), Phil Sheridan, James Longstreet. George Pickett and J. E. B. Stuart (Enrol Flynn), a handsome lad from Virginia...
...crowd. "Dear comrades, soldiers, sailors and workers, I ... greet you as the advance guard of the international proletarian army. . . . Not today, but tomorrow, any day, may see the general collapse of European capitalism. The Russian revolution . . . has dealt it the first blow and has opened a new epoch. . .. Long live the International Social Revolution!" Then an armored car took him to revolutionary headquarters...
...makes unexpected bedfellows in heaven as well as on earth. Because totalitarian thinking threatens U. S. democracy as much as totalitarian force, front-rank scientists and philosophers gathered last week for an epoch-making three-day conference with outstanding churchmen-Protestants, Catholics, Jews. The place: Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary. The purpose: to unify the thought of democracy, make it a united spiritual and intellectual force. The cast: seven Nobel laureates, a dozen college presidents, a host of philosophers, scientists, teachers, theologians. Altogether, over 600 representatives from 165 institutions attended, made a gallant effort to piece together the tree...
Smashing the British was these men's job, and their aerial Trafalgar marked an epoch in military history. The argument whether air fleets can conquer sea fleets has not been settled and may never be. But last week in the Battle of Britain, neither Germans nor Britons fooled themselves: mastery of the air was mastery...
...sincere conviction that the democratic processes of government can meet the tremendous demands now placed upon them. . . . This is not to say that after full and free discussion they should not decide to surrender certain rights and privileges for a period. . . ." Youth: "Perhaps the supreme tragedy of the present epoch is the fact that the friends of democracy in many lands . . . have failed to present to their children a great and ennobling goal. . . . The apparent enthusiasm and loyalty of youth in totalitarian states are not simply the products of regimentation and propaganda. Their deeper source is found in the fact...